Decorations / Commendation

Fall 2025

• Ms. Caine Morita Kiyoko, Former Lecturer of Japanese Language at Tufts University
• Professor Susan Napier, Goldthwaite Professor of Rhetoric and Japanese, School of Arts and Sciences, Tufts University

Fall 2024

• Dr. Takao Hensch, Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University

Spring 2024

• Mr. Fernando Quezada, former co-president of Massachusetts Hokkaido Association

Spring 2023

• Mr. Abe Shinichiro
• Ms. Katharine Finnegan, Executive Director of Kaji Aso Studio

Fall 2022

• Dr. Mary Brinton, Professor of sociology at Harvard University

Spring 2020

• Mr. Glenn Alfred Pereira, The Chief of Administration of Chado Urasenke Boston Association
• Mr. Gregory Boyko, Honorary Consul General of Japan in Simsbury, Connecticut
• Mr. William Glover Young, Former Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Spring 2019

• Mr. William W. Hunt, Ms. Keiko Thayer (Fukuhara), Ms. Keiko Matsudo Orrall

Fall 2018

• Prof. John M. Ramseyer, Ms. Atsuko Toko Fish, Dr. Anne Nishimura Morse

Spring 2018

• Dr. Helen Hardacre, Dr. Kenneth A. Oye

Fall 2017

• Prof. Theodore Bestor
• Prof. Paul Watanabe

Spring 2017

• Mr. Spencer W. Viner

Fall 2016

• Dr. Thomas G Curtin

Spring 2016

• Prof. Jerome Isaac Friedman 

FY2025

• Ms. Christine Pilcavage
• Dr. Sarah Elizabeth Thompson

FY2024

• Mr. Toru Oga, Former executive chef of Oga’s Japanese Cuisine
• Dr. Tom Mason, President of ALLEX Foundation
• Mr. Timothy Rowe, Founder and CEO of Cambridge Innovation Center (CIC)

FY2023

• Mr. Noriyasu Kudo
• Prof. Christina Davis, Harvard University

FY2022

• Mr. Shinichiro Abe
• Ms. Kiyoko Morita

FY2019

• Ms. Keiko Takayasu, Ikebana International Boston 17th Branch, Greater Hartford Japanese Association

FY2018

• JB Line, Inc.
• Japan America Society of Vermont

FY2017

• Mr. Glenn Sorei Pereira, Ms. Margaret Masumi Yamamoto, Ms. Kikuko Yamashita 

FY2016

• Dr. Tom Curtin, Prof. Tamae Prindle

​FY2026

• Ms. Toshiko Uchino, President of the U.S. & Japan Society of Connecticut
• Mr. Nobuhiro Misuoka
• Ms. Etsuko Yashiro

FY2025

• Dr. Bruce Stronach, President of Showa Boston Institute
• Mr. Yasuo Kubota, President of the Japanese Association of Greater Boston
• Japanese Language School of Greater Boston
• Mr. Ryan Shaffer, President of the Japan-America Society of Washington, D.C.
• Mr. Kevin Hiromoto

FY2024

• Dr. Marice Edouard-Vincent, the Superintendent of Medford Public Schools
• Boston Japan Festival Committee
• Mr. Peter Dolan, board member of the Salem-Ota Cultural Exchange
• Mr. Takahito Yamazaki and Mr. Akira Matsui, current and former chair of Japanese Business Association of New England
• Mr. Matthew Teitelbaum, MFA Boston Director
• Mr. Masataka Hata, President of Kyoto’s renowned incense company, Shoyeido